Pascale Bloch has written in International law: Response to Professor Fronza’s The punishment of Negationism (Accessed ProQuest Database, 12 October 2011) that:
“[R]evisionists” are understood as “negationists” in order to differentiate them from “historical revisionists” since their goal is either to [falsely] prove that the Holocaust did not exist or to introduce confusion regarding the victims and German executioners regardless of historical and scientific methodology and evidence. For those reasons, the term “revisionism” is often considered confusing since it conceals misleading ideologies that purport to avoid disapproval by presenting “revisions” of the past based on pseudo-scientific methods, while really they are a part of negationism.
• ^ Kriss Ravetto (2001). The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics, University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-3743-1. p. 33
• ^Watts, Philip (2009). “Rewriting history: Céline and Kurt Vonnegut”. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five. Infobase Publishing. ISBN978-1-4381-2874-0.
• ^Pohl, Dieter (2020). “Holocaust Studies in Our Societies”. S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 7 (1): 133–141. ISSN2408-9192. In addition, Holocaust research can support the fight against the falsification of history, not only Nazi negationism, but also lighter forms of historical propaganda.
In this article we would write what, how, when, why and who tries and have tried to rewrite history.
It should not be conflated with historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations better understood of history.[5]
The two leading critical exposés of Holocaust denial in the United States were written by historians Deborah Lipstadt (1993) and Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman (2000). These scholars make a distinction between historical revisionism and denial. Revisionism, in their view, entails a refinement of existing knowledge about an historical event, not a denial of the event itself, that comes through the examination of new empirical evidence or a re-examination or reinterpretation of existing evidence. Legitimate historical revisionism acknowledges a ‘certain body of irrefutable evidence’ or a ‘convergence of evidence’ that suggest that an event – like the black plague, American slavery, or the Holocaust – did in fact occur (Lipstadt 1993:21; Shermer & Grobman 200:34). Denial, on the other hand, rejects the entire foundation of historical evidence. … ” Ronald J. Berger. Fathoming the Holocaust: A Social Problems Approach, Aldine Transaction, 2002, ISBN 0-202-30670-4, p. 154.
If it is to be understood as better understood history.
There is a well know and evidenced history of humanity, the flood, but it is often deny assuming those evidences belong to a distant past of ice ages and naturalistic (without God intervention) planet evolution. But evidence is opposite. A 40 days planet transformation would require God intervention.
Deuteronomio 6:7-9
7 y las repetirás a tus hijos, y hablarás de ellas estando en tu casa, y andando por el camino, y al acostarte, y cuando te levantes.
8 Y las atarás como una señal en tu mano, y estarán como frontales entre tus ojos;
9 y las escribirás en los postes de tu casa, y en tus puertas.
Deuteronomio 6:9 : Dt. 11.18-20.
Oral tradition
Oral traditions face the challenge of accurate transmission and verifiability of the accurate version. It depends on intention, time and what it is about.
It is for this reason Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to help them to recall: John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (Also see John 15:26 ,1 John 2:27).
The letters and epistles after the four Gospels, are nothing but the Holy Spirit helping the authors to remember, what Jesus had already revealed to them. As Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, (Also see John 16:12-14).
About gospels
This is less like a game of “Telephone” than you might imagine. Literacy was not as widespread in first-century Palestine as it is today. People who live in non-literate societies remember things, like shared stories, more accurately than do people who are used to writing things down.
You do realize that from three years of ministry, His recorded words can all be spoken in less than one hour of speech. The events recorded, even accounting for travel time amount to less than a month of activity. “Every word” is a bit of a stretch isn’t it?
Even I can remember that much dialog with my parents—- who were not that particularly inspiring. Memories then were considerably more adept than modern civilized humans today. Plato rued the day they taught reading and writing (the Republic) because people would stop remembering…. how true as oral and writing tradition should go on hand. Jen Jacobsen
It was written testimony in a time where writing was used to keep record of stories in a community. Writing records was not commonly done by everyone so spoken testimony was the primary communication.
You must understand the details and timeframe of the stories, if you had a donkey and a cart you had the equivalent of the American dream.
The accounts of Jesus’ Disciples were testimonies of their experience with a man who made them drop everything in their life and follow him to his death and resurrection. How could they forget a story like that? Look at the dramatic change those disciples made from before Jesus called them to after his death and resurrection and beyond his return to the heavenly kingdom. What did each disciple do after Christ rose again? Josh garrard
Because oral tradition was much more practiced than it is today.
Even if a few words are changed, as they are among the many translations we see today, the core message remains the same as the scriptures were copied and passed on to new generations. Joshua wofford
Bauckham is on target when he writes: “Such notebooks would not be a wholly new factor in the process of transmission through memorization . . . They would simply have reinforced the capacity of oral transmission itself to preserve the traditions carefully. They should not be imagined as proto-Gospels” . . . (p. 289). Thus, they were used only in the transmission process, both oral and literary (written) traditions.
About missing bible verses in some versions, one should say they are missing because they are true. About versions and missing bible verses I’d write articles.
Great fire of rome
According to Tacitus and later Christian tradition, Emperor Nero blamed the devastation on the Christian community in the city, initiating the empire’s first persecution against the Christians.[3] However, some modern historians, including the Princeton classicist Brent Shaw, have cast doubt on the traditional view that Nero blamed the Christians for the fire.
[31] Tacitus, Annals XV.44 [3] Dando-Collins, Stephen (2010). The Great Fire of Rome. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81890-5.
At first you see how nero blamed Christians trying to rewrite facts. Then you see Brent shawn trying to rewrite history.
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